Polaroid may be best known for making cameras… and this year the company has a rather intriguing mirrorless camera running Android 4.1 on the way. But the company has been offering low-cost Android tablets since last year. So far we haven’t seen particularly good tablets from Polaroid. But the company does know how to make a […]
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Polaroid introduces the iM1836 mirrorless camera with Android
Polaroid’s latest camera may not print your pictures instantly onto tiny photo paper sheets, but the Polaroid iM1836 does have a few other tricks up its sleeve. The $399 mirrorless camera features changeable lenses, an 18.1MP image sensor, and runs Google Android 4.1, so you can use Android photo apps with your camera, upload your […]
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Polaroid’s new $150 Android 4.0 tablet is designed for kids
Polaroid is now selling a new kid-friendly tablet with a 7 inch display and a large rubber case designed to protect the tablet from spills and falls. If the tablet looks familiar, that’s probably because it seems to be a rebranded Gajah tablet. You can pick up the new 7 inch tablet from Polaroid for […]
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Rumor: Polaroid to introduce high-quality Android-powered camera
Last year Polaroid introduced a point-and-shoot camera with a touchscreen display and Android operating system. It was kind of cool… but also kind of underwhelming, both as a camera and as an Android device. Now it looks like Polaroid is ready to try again — this time with a higher quality camera with mirrorless camera […]
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Deals of the Day (5-08-2012)
Google Android 4.0 tablets aren’t in a club quite as exclusive as the one that contained Android 3.0 tablets. Google felt that in order to provide a decent experience, tablets running Android 3.0 through 3.2 needed to meet certain requirements. So the company only made source code available to a small group of manufacturers that […]
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Big Lots selling a Polaroid Android 4.0 tablet for $100
The Polaroid 701i isn’t a very good Android tablet. But it is a very cheap Android tablet. It runs Google Android 4.0 and normally sells for less than $150, and right now Big Lots is offering the tablet for $99.99. The only catch is that the deal is good in stores only. You can’t order online. In […]
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Polaroid introduces a line of eReaders for some reason
Polaroid isn’t just entering the Android smartphone and tablet business. The company is also introducing a line of underwhelming digital book readers with 4.3 inch, 7 inch and 9 inch displays. The smallest is actually a 4.3 inch “Internet Tablet,” with a resistive touch display, a web browser, support for video playback, and 4GB of […]
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Polaroid unveils 7, 8, 9 inch uninspiring tablets
Polaroid has introduced a line of Android tablets with a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-a8 single core processor, between 4GB and 16GB of storage and 7, 8, and 9 inch displays. I can’t think of any reason why you’d want to buy any of them though. Eventually the tablets will be available with Google Android 4.0, […]
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Polaroid unveils a $299 Android-powered camera/phone
Polaroid has introduced a 16 megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom which will be available in April for about $299. Oh yeah, and it runs Google Android… and makes phone calls The Polaroid SC1630 has a 3.2 inch, 800 x 400 pixel touchscreen display and a custom version of Android 2.x with an emphasis […]
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Polaroid to launch a tablet… with cameras
Polaroid is best known for its cameras that allow you to print shots right away on small piece of photo paper. Digital photography has largely turned the classic Polaroid camera into a niche product at best, but the company also has its own digital camera line. Now Polaroid is also apparently entering the Android tabelt […]